S.507

To establish the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Hanford, Washington, and for other purposes.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

March 7, 2013

Ms. CANTWELL (for herself, Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. HEINRICH, Mrs. MURRAY, and Mr. UDALL of New Mexico) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

A BILL

To establish the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Hanford, Washington, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Act'.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress finds that--

(1) the Manhattan Project was an unprecedented top-secret program

implemented during World War II to produce an atomic bomb before Nazi

Germany;

(2) a panel of experts convened by the President's Advisory Council on

Historic Preservation in 2001--

(A) stated that `the development and use of the atomic bomb during World War

II has been called `the single most significant event of the 20th century';

and

(B) recommended that nationally significant sites associated with the

Manhattan Project be formally established as a collective unit and be

administered for preservation, commemoration, and public interpretation in